Hours of drone footage from the San Francisco Police Department has been revealed online, marking a significant shift towards invasive urban surveillance. The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office also sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google, urging them to remove 13 AI-based nudifying face-swap apps from their stores, which disproportionately target women and girls.
Meta has been under scrutiny regarding its NameTag face-recognition system, with company leaders providing vague and conflicting statements about its existence. A recent analysis looked at both claims and facts concerning the feature.
In a speech, former President Donald Trump reiterated unfounded assertions about the 2020 US election, claiming to unveil significant documents that ultimately failed to substantiate his allegations.
Meanwhile, the tech company Anthropic has been advocating for stronger regulations on AI as its capabilities evolve rapidly. The head of US state and local government relations at Anthropic, Cesar Fernandez, emphasized the necessity of aligning policy responses with technological advancements.
Recent security news highlights various pressing issues:
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Period Tracker Privacy Concerns: The astrology-themed period tracker Stardust has been criticized for sharing sensitive reproductive health information with an unnamed analytics firm, scoring a mere 2 out of 10 in a Mozilla Foundation privacy audit. In contrast, the nonprofit-run tracker Euki received a perfect score for its stringent privacy measures.
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Russia’s FSB Sanctioned: The EU and the UK have sanctioned Russia’s FSB for a cyberattack that targeted the Polish electric grid, a rare instance of the agency’s involvement in hacking typically associated with the GRU military intelligence.
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Ex-Kaspersky Employee Charged with Hacking: Denis Obrezko, an alleged hacker linked to the group Void Blizzard, was reported to have previously worked for Kaspersky. He faces charges for his role in breaching data belonging to multiple NATO countries and US companies.
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DHS Breach Misidentified: The Department of Homeland Security experienced a breach where initial signs of hacker activity were misclassified as false positives on two occasions, revealing challenges in detecting modern hacking techniques.
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AI Music Generator Exposed: A security breach at the AI music startup Suno exposed that it scraped vast amounts of content from platforms like YouTube to train its models. Customer data was also compromised, raising serious privacy concerns.
These incidents underscore the growing concerns around cybersecurity and the intricate relationship between technology and privacy.
